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SHAKESPEARE, Edward Oram, physician, born in Dover, Delaware, 19 Nay, 1846. He is descended from Edmund, one of the brothers of the poet, William Shakespeare. After receiving his bache-lofts degree at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1867, he was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1869. At first he settled in Dover, Delaware, but in 1874 removed to Philadelphia. He makes a specialty of ophthalmic surgery, and is lecturer on refraction and accommodation of the eye, and operative ophthalmic surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1885 he was sent as the representative of the United States to Spain and other countries in Europe where cholera existed, in order to investigate the causes, progress, and proper prevention and cure of that disease. He spent six months in studying the subject, and made his report to congress. Dr. Shakespeare is a member of several medical societies, and has devised for clinical purposes a new ophthalmoscope and ophthahnometre.
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